Latin American Culture & Civilization
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2019
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2019
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The engaging, readable style of Latin American Culture & Civilization fosters an interactive humanistic approach for the study of more than five centuries of Latin American history, culture, and civilization. Richly illustrated with maps, color images, and photos, including photos of rare images from antiquarian volumes, the historical content is expanded by and evolves through extensive use of original source materials, including travel writings, eye witness accounts, letters, essays, declassified government documents, excerpts from antiquarian texts, and newspaper and journal accounts. In addition to the numerous primary source materials from several centuries, many translated by the author and other experts, essays and excerpts from important 20th and 21st century figures are included.
Discussion and research questions are designed to foster critical thinking skills and to enhance the reader’s knowledge base. Discussion questions guide readers in the synthesis of historical content, in developing awareness of the connections of past events and conditions to the complexities of current Latin American challenges, and in reflections on issues of race, ethnicity, and identity resulting from the collision of European, indigenous, and African cultures.
The publication includes online assessments (reading quizzes, mid-term & final exams, a map project), student resources, and a cooperative group project for use with significant Latin American literary works. The reading quizzes are designed to focus students’ attention on key points in preparation for class lectures and discussions. The online assessment site and gradebook allow instructors more time for focus on delivery of classroom content.
Dedications
Acknowledgements
Preface for Students
PRELIMINARY READINGS
When Worlds Collide
Evaluating Sources
Author’s Note on Translation
UNIT 1 SPAIN ON EVE OF THE DISCOVERY
The Catholic Kings
The Catholic Monarchs Enter Granada
Guicciardini on the Spanish Character
Luis de Santángel Faces the Spanish Inquisition
UNIT 2 AGE OF DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST
Columbus’s Voyages
Letter from Columbus to Luis de Santángel
Letter from Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella Concerning the Colonization and Commerce of Española
Letter of Dr. Chanca on the Second Voyage of Columbus
Transcript of A Letter Which the Admiral of the Indies Sent to the Nurse of Prince Don John of Castile
The Fourth Voyage of Columbus
The Early Clergy in the New World
The Annals of the Cakchiquels
The Broken Spears
Bernardino’s Earliest Research on the Ancient Culture
The Advent Sermon of Father Montesinos
Enraged Colonists and Friar Montesinos Appeal to King of Spain
Bartholomew de las Casas: His Life, Apostolate, and Writings
A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
The Exploits of Cortés in the Land of Montezuma
Cortés Meets Montezuma
In the Court of Montezuma
Bernal Díaz del Castillo Praises Doña Marina
UNIT 3 EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD
Early Colonial Government
Colonial Officials
The Marquis of Varinas Gives Warnings to Charles II
The Corregidor and Exploitation of the Indigenous
The Maya of the Yucatán
Diego de Landa on the Maya: Relaciones de Yucatán
Codices and Landa’s Maya Alphabet
The Inca of Peru
The Resettlement Policy of the Inca
El padre Cobo on the Incan Oppression of Their Subjects
Francisco Pizarro Meets Atahualpa
The Columbian Exchange
New World Agricultural Heritage
Spain’s Agricultural Contributions to New World
Livestock Brought from Spain to the New World
Mine of Potosí
The Indigenous of Guatemala
Indian Life in Guatemala
Subjugation of the Indigenous in Guatemala
UNIT 4 MATURE COLONIAL PERIOD
Colonial Enlightenment
Sor Juana: The Tenth Muse of Mexico
To men, Poem, Sor Juana
Sor Juana: In Defense of Learning
The Spanish Commercial System
Of the Means by which Spain is drained of the Effects brought from the Indies
Humboldt’s Observations on the Economy of New Spain
Color, Case, and Identity in the Spanish and Brazilian Colonies
Thomas Gage on Mexico City
The Inhabitants of Cartagena: Color, Castes, Manners of Dress, and Promising Beginnings
Racial Miscegenation: A “Prejudicial Parenthesis”
Travels in Brazil (VOL. I): The Government—The Taxes—The Public Institutions—Criminals
Travels in Brazil (VOL. I): Residence at Jaguaribe—Journey to Goiana—Illness—Horse Stealing and Assassins—Nocturnal Meetings—Power of the Planters—Festival of St. Benito—Negros of St. Benito—Church of Our Lady of the O—Miraculous Cures
Travels in Brazil (VOL. II): Free Population—Engeitados—Treatment of Slaves—Mulattos—Mamalucos—Creole Negros
The Revolt of Tupac Amaru II Against the Spanish Authorities
The Social Condition of Peru in 1780
Genealogy, Life, and Deeds of José Gabriel Condorcanqui (Tupac-Amaru II)
Micaela Bastidas, Peruvian Revolutionary Heroine
Insurrection of Tupac Amaru
Walsh on Life in Brazil
Maria Luzia Enters the Sisterhood
The Clergy in Brazil
Calderón de la Barca on Life in Mexico
Mexican Society and the Poblana Dress
Motives for Taking the Veil
Agitation
Revolution
Santa Anna, A Proclamation, and Political Strife
Caudillos and Strongmen
Strongmen of Argentina and Uruguay
Sarmiento on the Gaucho
Life in the Argentine Republic: Facundo Quiroga
UNIT 5 DRIVE FOR INDEPENDENCE
Drive for Independence
Hidalgo, Morelos, and the Mexican War of Independence
San Martín in Guayaquil
Slavery in Early Texas
UNIT 6 ROOTS OF U.S.-MEXICAN CONFLICTS
Mexican Life and Politics in 1847 During U.S. Invasion
Correspondence between the Secretary of War and Generals Scott and Taylor
Early Events of the Mexican Revolution of 1910
The Mexican Policy of President Woodrow Wilson as it Appears to a Mexican
Mexican Envoy Quits
UNIT 7 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND: TENSIONS, DISCORDS, UPRISINGS, AND COUPS
The Long Arm of Neocolonialism
Perón, Populism, and the Descamisados
Allende, Pinochet, and the Desaparecidos
Las Madres de los Desaparecidos / The Mothers of the Disappeared
Behind the Masks
MACHOMASK: Narratives of Paternalism in Junot Díaz’s Drown
Mexican Masks
Wind and Water and Stone, Poem, Octavio Paz
Invasions, Borders, and Walls
Punitive Expedition in Mexico, 1916–1917
Mexico–United States Relations in Age of Trump
Hablan Jorge Ramos y Paula Anabel Camarena Villalobos
(Jorge Ramos and Paula Anabel Camerena Villalobos Speak)
UNIT 8 PLUS ÇA CHANGE
Burning Books and Attacks on Dissidents and the Press
Plus ça Change, Plus Ce’est La Même Chose
Appendix
World Map
Glossary
Bonnie R. Miculinic is an award-winning educator who holds graduate degrees from universities in the United States and has conducted research at La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and El Colegio de México in Mexico City. In addition to an extensive teaching career, the author has developed curriculum and programs related to Latin American studies and has presented on related topics both in the United States and in Mexico. As faculty emeritus from Morton College in suburban Chicago, the author currently teaches as an adjunct and continues her research on Latin America and her work on translations of primary sources.